Stewart Falls, twice in a month

We lost our Ultimate game this morning. I'm still ticked off about it. Neal showed up at like 11:15 or so (he was camping with his ward), and we only had one sub throughout the game. At first, it looked like we were going to win. We were playing Don's and Curt's team and we went up 4-1. The first play of the game was especially cool—Mark took the pull, threw it to me, and I launched a long bomb across the field to Mandy (who had a big jump on her defender) for a score. All within 10 seconds. And I had some other pretty good throws, but we soon exhausted ourselves, and we were losing at half, 6-8. After half, we played pretty even, and when Neal showed up we managed to bring the score to 11-12. So I was thinking that surely with Neal we'd win now. But no luck. In fact, we played worse. We ended up losing 11-15. That stunk. And I'm pretty sure a lot of the blame can be pinned on me. I got addicted to the long throw early, because that's how we went up 4-1, and I think I went back to it too often when we got past half-field. And at the end I also made 3 or 4 throwing errors that cost us big. So I've got to practice my patience this week. After the game, Neal and David and Johnnie all needed someone to help them drop off the SUV they were using at the campout and then take them to BYU campus, so I volunteered to help out. This ended up taking a lot of time, though, because traffic was backed up everywhere for the BYU game.

Once I got home, I had about 40 minutes to shower, eat a salami sandwich, and get dressed before Laura picked me up at 2:00. This was a little problematic, because I had nothing to wear. But then I decided it was a hike and I could wear smelly and mismatched clothes if I needed to. Which was a good assumption, because Laura hadn't even had time for a shower after her game. We went to meet Michelle and her boyfriend Jeff, and then headed on up to Stewart Falls. It was a great day for hiking. Not too hot, and Stewart Falls was in the shadows for the most part. All the leaves had turned red, orange, yellow, and brown. I felt like I was walking through New England. I was also surprised by the lack of smoke, even though the fire at Cascade Springs is still not fully contained. The hike was very relaxed, and as I said I got a lot of good pictures. I also got to play with my GPS unit—it has a very cool trace utility that I really wish we had had for Nebo a few weeks ago. The way back was a little tedious, first because I got a call from Brother Wood and he reminded me about home teaching stats, so I spent 10 minutes or so calling up people about that. Then Laura was in a real hurry to get back in time to shower and go to Relief Society meeting at the Marriott Center.

I spent the next two hours calling people about home teaching and other miscellaneous church items. Then I started watching a lecture by Edward Said on one of those public access university channels. It was about Palestine and U.S. Policy. Let's just say he's no big fan of U.S. Policy in Palestine, and he had a pretty convincing argument. That I can agree with, but his logic against our invasion of Iraq was less than convincing. I'm not going to get into it now, though. They're both such frustrating issues.

From there I went to go see Mark's band play at Muse Music. After that I came home and I've been fiddling around with my PocketPC for the last hour or so.

Posted September 27, 2003 (11:59 PM) | Comments (1)